“The North is the only place where nature can still claim to rule, the only place as yet but little vexed by man. All over the globe there spread his noisy failures; the North alone is silent and at peace”. (Stephen Leacock 1937)
Today we have been looking out for narwhal, the whale with the large straight tusk from a protruding canine tooth that lives for about 50 years. It feeds on flatfish in winter and cod, halibut in summer. Each year migrating from bays into the ocean as summer comes. Saw some snow geese instead….and a mother polar bear with two cubs.

Too windy to launch the zodiacs this afternoon. Lots of time for reading as we floated past large craggy mountains with glaciers spilling out.

“Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn is entertaining me! “He turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun. (Don’t make me turn this car around)…Please, really, turn it around”.

Tonight, Jonathan’s (surprise) birthday party that his wife has organised and I have been invited… nice!